Indianola: There's a Water Stain on My Ceiling and Nothing Is Above It

Why this happens in Indianola

Start with a supply line leaking in a wall or joist bay. Copper pinholed at a nail plate or a hanger, a cracked polybutylene fitting, a galvanized thread rusted through. Around Miller Bay Road and Kitsap Memorial the housing dates from a 1920s summer colony turned year-round village, which makes this the likeliest answer to water stain on ceiling.

Then roof, flashing or window. Appears with rain and dries between storms. We've seen it near Kitsap Memorial more than once, usually on 1920s summer-colony plumbing.

Don't overlook a drain or overflow leak. Only when a fixture upstairs is used. On Indianola properties from a 1920s summer colony turned year-round village it comes up more than you'd think.

Before you call

Indianola's village lines run through easements and across neighbors' lots from the 1920s summer-colony days, and the first job is tracing where the pipe actually goes.

First steps for water stain on ceiling near the Indianola Dock: do the meter test with every fixture closed. Don't cut the ceiling at the stain; the leak is usually elsewhere. Note whether the stain grows with rain, with fixture use, or constantly. Then call; the rest is a locate through a sandy beach shelf below the village, not guesswork.

What happens next

When it's the buried line, the fix in Indianola is interior water leak detection: we isolate hot and cold, thermal and moisture through ground that holds water all winter at the marked spot on wooded parcels along Miller Bay Road, and trace and listen. Pipe locator and tracer and the mini excavator ride on the first trip so it's finished the same visit.

Indianola Road, the Indianola Dock, the Clubhouse: near any of them, water stain on ceiling gets the same crew and the same equipment. About half an hour off Miller Bay Road, day or night, with the mini excavator on the trailer for bluff lots facing Port Madison.